Sana Anas , LCSW

Sana Anas is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) who has worked with adults across a wide spectrum of mental health and life challenges. She has offered virtual visits with clients in Hawai'i while personally based in North Carolina, and brings experience supporting people with anxiety, depression, psychosis, mania, substance use, trauma, and interpersonal relationship concerns. Her clinical work has spanned diverse identities and backgrounds, including a range of genders, races, ethnicities, sexualities, socioeconomic situations, and educational levels.

Sana’s therapeutic stance is warm and person-centered; she meets clients where they are and builds treatment around each person’s strengths. She integrates multiple evidence-informed modalities, interweaving practical tools with a touch of humor to help clients identify solutions and move toward their goals. Conversations and care plans are adapted to reflect each client’s unique needs and circumstances, with attention to themes such as attachment, stress, addiction, grief, self-esteem, and life transitions.

Sana values the courage it takes to seek change and has offered a 15-minute telephone consultation process through Headway.co to assess fit before beginning telehealth sessions. She is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW). She is not currently accepting clients.

Approaches That Guide Online Sessions

Sana draws on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), Attachment-Based Therapy, and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) to tailor online work to each person’s needs. ACT helps people clarify their values and take committed action even when difficult thoughts or feelings arise - it is useful for anxiety, depression, and stress related to life changes. Attachment-Based Therapy focuses on patterns in close relationships, exploring how early and current attachments affect trust, intimacy, and communication, which can help with relationship struggles, abandonment concerns, and codependency. CBT offers structured, skills-based strategies to identify and shift unhelpful thinking and behavior patterns, often used for anxiety, mood disorders, and coping with daily challenges.

Finding the right approach is part of the therapeutic process, and Sana works collaboratively with clients to determine what methods best fit their goals, preferences, and life circumstances. Sessions evolve as needs change, blending approaches when that best serves progress.

Online therapy with licensed professionals offers practical flexibility - sessions can occur by video call or phone, and some work can continue via live chat or text-based messaging. These options make it easier to fit care into busy schedules, attend from different locations, and maintain continuity of support when life gets complicated.